Investment Q&A

Q: Can I get the fundamentals on these companies.

How do you see them performing in an inflationary environment.

Q: pki reported Thursday after close. results appear good. can you review hilites and interpret what they mean for future. Also explain significance of sol announcement. should this be good for company and be a boost for stock.

Q: 7:19 AM 7/8/2022
Our retirement income portfolios are heavily weighted to higher dividend companies : banks, utilities, pipelines, telecoms, BIP and BEP, and CNR.
We are considering adding one or more of the following companies: PKI, EIF, NWC, SLF, TRP.
We would expect them to provide reliable increasing dividends plus some ongoing share price growth over the years.
Could you please indicate what order you would purchase them and maybe a comment or two on each for a very long term hold.
Thanking you.......... Paul W K.

Q: I have not received a monthly dividend from Parkland fuel in May. Has there been a change in their dividend policy?

Q: Your comments on earnings, please (if not already posted). Do these change your "slow growth" theory? Thanks, Jim

Q: Hi 5i Team,

Pls comment on Parkland corp earning.

It has been dropped from your portfolio, pls also comment it’s outlook if anything negative going forward . Should I continue to hold?

Thank you for your professional advice.

Q: Hi Peter, Ryan, and Team,

In a TFSA with PKI as the only "energy" holding, would you be OK with a switch to ENB? (Higher yield, lower beta, more conservative) The recent dropping of PKI from 5i's portfolio is another reason, and it's been quite a "dog" for me.

Thanks for your continued insight as we navigate this difficult market.

Q: I have sold PKI and this was my only energy stock. Which energy stocks would buy for a RRSP not needed for 20 years?

Thanks

Q: If you had to pick four out of the above names to add to today, which would you choose?

Q: All three reported tonight (March 3). What are your thoughts on the results and would you rate them a buy/sell/hold and why? If a hold, what would you see as a catalyst to get each of them moving? Thanks for all you do.

Q: Parkland and GFL seem to both in steady slides -could you comment-

Q: Can you please provide your insights on Boralex and Parkland and their valuations.
How do you see them perform ?

Thank you

Q: In my RRIF account I hold NTR which has broke two of my sell/trim thresholds. It has grown by 100% and is now over 7% holding in this account, so I may trim back to a 5% holding. My short list to replace with a higher dividend income in mind are ACO.X, EIF, NWC, and PKI. Could I please get your ranking and if any should be removed from short list.

Q: Hi Peter, Ryan, and Team,

I and others have recently commented on Parkland's relatively poor performance lately. PKI is held in our son's TFSA (which I manage). Being reluctant to sell at a loss, I've held off, hoping for better days ahead.

I found this analysis (from National Bank Direct Brokerage) and am curious if you agree with their assessment, or should we take our lumps and move on?

Could changing the sector index help PKI?
We note that PKI is classified in the S&P TSX Energy Index, which could be
misplaced given that retail constitutes >40% of its business. In our view, PKI’s
share underperformance is related, in part, to fund flow imbalance (given
that PKI doesn’t benefit from rising commodity prices). We further note
that many peers, including Alimentation Couche-Tard, Casey’s and Murphy
USA, are in the Consumer Index (either Discretionary or Staples). With a
growing non-fuel business (including the recent M&M acquisition), sector
reclassification for PKI to the Consumer Index could direct investor focus
more toward PKI's operational performance versus commodity exposure (it
could also help to reduce share price volatility in the long term). We remain
constructive on PKI given ongoing end-market recovery, attractive valuation,
and anticipated future accretive acquisitions.

Thanks in advance for your continued help as we navigate this difficult market.

Q: PKI's recent poor performance is well-documented but am I interested in a deeper dive as to why. Should its fortunes not have improved with the rise in oil prices? Or is the sky high price of fuel at the pumps resulting in lower volumes and thus decreased traffic in its high margin stores? Or is it something else? I have been a long term owner but my patience is just about exhausted and I am skeptical at best about the M & M acquisition.

Thanks for your views.

Q: Hi Peter and Staff

PKI has been disappointing. What do you think of Topaz as a long term investment versus Parkland ?
Thanks for all you do
Dennis

Q: Hi Peter, Ryan, and Team,

Like many members as well as 5i, I am increasingly frustrated with PKI. For example, it dropped 5.2% on January 18. :(

We hold PKI in both my wife’s and my RRIFs. Both holdings are still up, but I’m considering exiting PKI while we’ve still made some money.

I was considering equal purchases of SU, CNQ or CVE, TOU, and KEY for each RRIF (2 for each RRIF). Would you be OK with such a move? Please rank these 5 stocks for safety and upside.

Another move I was considering is to raise our US exposure by buying Vanguard’s ETF VDE. (According to Portfolio Analytics, we’re underweight in the energy sector, as well as USA). Would you endorse this purchase, which would be for our non-registered account? Am I correct in assuming that any withholding taxes shouldn’t prevent this purchase in a non-registered account?

I also manage our son’s TFSA, and unfortunately his holding in PKI is down by quite a bit. I intend to hold it, but would certainly exit it if 5i drops it from the Balance Equity Model Portfolio. Is 5i considering such a move?

Please deduct sufficient credits, and thanks as always for your insight and guidance.

Q: What do you think of the M & M acquisition. I thought it appeared to be a sound strategy and should increase in store customers and purchases.
Cheers, Chris

Q: Scotia lowered the target price to $41 and stated that PKI should reduce the EBITDA growth and instead return more capital to shareholders in dividends. EBITDA grew from $1.25-billion to $2.0-billion. Is Scotia's hypothesis correct? I always thought that the EBIDTA growth is one of the most important criteria in evaluating a stock.

Q: Considering that you were frustrated with this one yesterday, today you must be downright peeved. I see no news and was just wondering if you have seen anything cross your wires on this one today. I am thinking of adding.